The 'Bug Book'
by Judy Quinn -- Publishers Weekly, 6/30/1997
...is what some industry insiders were calling Instinct, a first novel from documentary filmmaker-turned screenwriter Ron Casden that centers around insects solving the problem of interspecies communication and trying to take over the world. Warner v-p/executive editor Rick Horgan made a six-figure, two-book deal with L.A. agent Jerry Zeitman, based on a 17-page treatment that had an incarnation as a miniseries pitch to Warner's TV department. Now, however, the story is destined for Disney, with that company paying a reported $850,000 for film rights and screenplay adaptation.
